China News Service, Beijing, February 3: Title: The scenery during the Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon is warm and bright, and people in Beijing walk through the streets to enjoy the flavor of the New Year.
China News Service reporter Xu Jing
“I heard that Wangfujing’s landscape is very special for the New Year, so I came here to feel happy.” The 2nd is the Northern New Year in the Chinese Lunar Calendar. As night falls, Mr. Shao, a tourist from Tianjin, puts down the New Year’s goods he just bought and goes to the Wangfujing Palace in Beijing. Jing Pedestrian Street raised his cell phone and took a photo.
On February 2, tourists checked in and took photos in front of the "Peace in All Directions" landscape sketch on Wangfujing Pedestrian Street in Beijing. Photo by China News Service reporter Zhang Yu
The protagonist of this photo is a landscape sketch called "Sifang Peace". The landscape sketch uses bright red and warm yellow as the main colors, and adds festive elements such as paper-cuts, auspicious clouds, lanterns, and blessing signs. From time to time, pedestrians take photos in front of blessing signs such as "Peace and Peace", "Family Happiness", and "Farewell to the Old and Welcome to the New". On the treetops not far away, a string of small red lanterns and lucky bags add warmth to the coming night.
At present, the landscape layout for the Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon in Beijing is basically in place. The reporter learned from the Beijing Urban Management Committee that this year Beijing will carry out the Spring Festival landscape decoration work with the theme of "Warm and Bright Beijing, Happy Spring Festival". The city mainly uses lantern lighting, tree hanging devices, tree-wrapped lights, etc. to create linear landscapes, involving nearly 1,000 main streets; more than 250,000 hanging lanterns, lighting and various types of decorations, and more than 220 large-scale landscape sketches.
At the beginning of the lanterns, in the architectural light show of Liangma River in Chaoyang District, a soaring golden dragon burst into people's view accompanied by the blessings of "Dragon Walking" and "Happy New Year".
On February 2, the Liangma River building light show in Chaoyang District, Beijing. Photo by China News Service reporter Zhang Yu
"It's more shocking than I imagined." Zhang Chenyu, a freshman in college this year, came from Changping District to watch the light show. She told reporters that what attracts her most to this landscape is the combination of traditional culture and modern technology. "The cute golden dragon can attract young people, and the main color of red sends auspicious blessings. It is a place suitable for all ages to check in."
The reporter learned that Chaoyang District linked the Olympic Tower and Liangma Harbor as the stage for the Year of the Dragon AR show, integrating peonies, folding fans, lanterns and other elements with AR technology to send blessings, creating a unique virtual experience. The audience can experience the wonderful interaction between the two locations through the guidance of the dragon element and along the rhythmic narrative line.
In order to make the Spring Festival landscape layout more ornamental and interesting, Beijing has stepped up innovation in layout carriers, forms and content this year, deploying 64 outdoor electronic displays, 15 "5G+8K" ultra-clear displays and 2 There are naked-eye 3D displays, etc., and 5G, AR, light and shadow and other technologies are also used to display electronic fireworks, New Year greetings, and multiple points to display beautiful night scenes in the entire area.
During the Spring Festival, all landscape lighting facilities in Beijing will be turned on according to the major holiday levels. Street lights will be turned on on February 9 (New Year's Eve) and will be turned off at 1 a.m. the next day. 1) From February 17th (the eighth day of the first lunar month) to February 24th (Lantern Festival), the street lights will be turned on every day and turned off at 24:00 on the same day to enhance the nighttime effect of important nodes.
As night falls, sanitation worker Zhang Haiming is cleaning the sidewalk at the east entrance of Gulou West Street in Xicheng District. Next to him, there are nearly 200 sepak takraw lanterns of various colors hanging on the trees in the pocket park. In front of the road, the "Bamboo Rhythm and Warm Sun" landscape is decorated with a 40-meter-long golden light surface, and small apple lanterns and grasshopper cage lanterns are hung on small trees to express the artistic conception of life in old Beijing.
On February 2, the "Qiao Tower Geng Drum" scene located on Gulou West Street, Xicheng District, Beijing. Photo by China News Service reporter Zhang Yu
"The streets are more festive than usual, and there are more lanterns in front." Zhang Haiming, who is from his hometown in Hebei, will spend this Spring Festival at work. "Life in Beijing is going very well. I hope my children will improve academically and the family will get better and better." After saying that, he walked along the road and continued his work that night. (over)